by frank754
Here are a few pics of the Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railway bridge, and the Laurel Line bridge adjacent to it, just taken this week (9/10/10)
http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/nwb.html
I will have to come back with my better camera, but this was inspired by this page,
which has a few views of the same structures:
http://laurellines.org/llrelics.htm
Through downtown Wilkes-Barre, there is only one track, but the CNJ station is still standing,
and there are some old cars there, they hope to make it into a tourist site one day:
http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/w-b.html
This map shows the trackage in Wilkes-Barre as of 1933 or prior, with the still-extant Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/wbh_term.jpg
Here's an aerial view of the area, taken in May, 1959, zoomed and cropped from
the Penn Pilots site (they also have a view from 1939).
http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/lw ... ls_w-b.jpg
You can search and zoom in on all their images here:
http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/
http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/nwb.html
I will have to come back with my better camera, but this was inspired by this page,
which has a few views of the same structures:
http://laurellines.org/llrelics.htm
Through downtown Wilkes-Barre, there is only one track, but the CNJ station is still standing,
and there are some old cars there, they hope to make it into a tourist site one day:
http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/w-b.html
This map shows the trackage in Wilkes-Barre as of 1933 or prior, with the still-extant Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/wbh_term.jpg
Here's an aerial view of the area, taken in May, 1959, zoomed and cropped from
the Penn Pilots site (they also have a view from 1939).
http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/lw ... ls_w-b.jpg
You can search and zoom in on all their images here:
http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/